Learning Objectives

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Use the picture below to answer questions 1-3.

Find .

Find .

Find .

Know What? A compass (as seen to the right) is used to determine the direction a person is traveling in. The angles between each direction are very important because they enable someone to be more specific and precise with their direction. In boating, captains use headings to determine which direction they are headed. A heading is the angle at which these compass lines intersect. So, a heading of , would be straight out along that northwest line.

What headings have the same angle measure? What is the angle measure between each compass line?

Complementary Angles

Complementary: When two angles add up to .

Complementary angles do not have to be congruent to each other, nor do they have to be next to each other.

Example 1: The two angles below are complementary. . What is ?

Solution: Because the two angles are complementary, they add up to . Make an equation.

Example 2: The two angles below are complementary. Find the measure of each angle.

Solution: Again, the two angles add up to . Make an equation.

However, this is not what the question asks for. You need to plug back into each expression to find each angle.

Supplementary Angles

Supplementary: When two angles add up to .

Just like complementary angles, supplementary angles do not have to be congruent or touching.

Example 3: The two angles below are supplementary. If what is ?

Solution: Just like Examples 1 and 2, set up an equation. However, instead of equaling , now it is .

Example 4: What is the measure of two congruent, supplementary angles?

Solution: Supplementary angles add up to . Congruent angles have the same measure. Divide by 2, to find the measure of each angle.

So, two congruent, supplementary angles are right angles, or .

Linear Pairs

Adjacent Angles: Two angles that have the same vertex, share a side, and do not overlap.

and are adjacent.

and are NOT adjacent because they overlap.

Linear Pair: Two angles that are adjacent and whose non-common sides form a straight line.

and are a linear pair.

Linear Pair Postulate: If two angles are a linear pair, then they are supplementary.

Example 5:Algebra Connection What is the value of each angle?

Solution: These two angles are a linear pair, so they are supplementary, or add up to . Write an equation.

So, plug in to get the measure of each angle.

Example 6: Are and a linear pair? Are they supplementary?

Solution: The two angles are not a linear pair because they do not have the same vertex. However, they are supplementary, .

Vertical Angles

Vertical Angles: Two non-adjacent angles formed by intersecting lines.

and are vertical angles

and are vertical angles

Notice that these angles are labeled with numbers. You can tell that these are labels because they do not have a degree symbol.

Investigation 1-5: Vertical Angle Relationships

Draw two intersecting lines on your paper. Label the four angles created and . See the picture above.

Take your protractor and find .

What is the angle relationship between and ? Find .

What is the angle relationship between and ? Find .

What is the angle relationship between and ? Find .

Are any angles congruent? If so, write down the congruence statement.

From this investigation, hopefully you found out that and . This is our first theorem. That means it must be proven true in order to use it.

Vertical Angles Theorem: If two angles are vertical angles, then they are congruent.

We can prove the Vertical Angles Theorem using the same process we used above. However, let’s not use any specific values for the angles.

Recall that anytime the measures of two angles are equal, the angles are also congruent.

Example 7: Find and .

Solution: is vertical angles with , so . is a linear pair with or , so .

Know What? Revisited The compass has several vertical angles and all of the smaller angles are . Directions that are opposite each other, have the same angle measure, but of course, a different direction. All of the green directions have the same angle measure, , and the purple have the same angle measure, . and all have different measures, even though they are all apart.

Review Questions

Find the measure of an angle that is complementary to if is

Find the measure of an angle that is supplementary to if is

Use the diagram below for exercises 3-7. Note that .

Name one pair of vertical angles.

Name one linear pair of angles.

Name two complementary angles.

Name two supplementary angles.

Given that , find:

For 8-15, determine if the statement is ALWAYS true, SOMETIMES true or NEVER true.

Vertical angles are congruent.

Linear pairs are congruent.

Complementary angles add up to .

Supplementary angles add up to

Adjacent angles share a vertex.

Adjacent angles overlap.

Complementary angles are .

The complement of is .

For 16-25, find the value of or .

Find .

Find .

Find and in the following diagrams.

Algebra Connection. Use factoring or the quadratic formula to solve for the variables.